#mcr architecture

[mcr-architecture]

ray as the frog bridge in willimantic, CT

[missteenamericaband]

STILLS FROM OUR UPCOMING FIRST MUSIC VIDEO!!! Genuinely so excited about these, the entire process was so enjoyable and creatively fulfilling. Seeing my ideas pan out in real time was beyond amazing. Expect to see it out in roughly a month. Take Me Back is also arguably my favorite song of ours and the thought of people being introduced to us through this song is so exciting!! Stay tuned!

[innerscarcenturion]

Mcr has officially taken over my brain because this is the first time since college started that I finish a drawing of a person

[sketchcakes]

old man in this church complimented my drawings and asked if i'd like to join other members of the congregation for an art project

didn't know what to reply since i was actually here for background references for unholyverse frerard fanart but it was nice of him to ask

[silly62]

Hi, I’m Ahmed from Gaza. and I'm asking you personally, can you please take a look at my campaign.. at my lost present.. my lost future 😞.

I'm human, and I'm asking you to act from your humanity.

Thanks ❤️

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Go and help them out if u can‼️🗣🫶

[fidget-the-kitty]

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE

x x x - x x x - x x x

[m1xt4pe-m4ster]

hello tungle dot cum please if any of you have old architecture designs for victorian boarding schools give them to me please i need help

[mcr-architecture]

POOL BOY AT THE VAMPIRE MANSION

[lukiaxx]

mcr ecosystem blogs list!

list of mcr ecosystem blogs, cuz theyre just so great

if i missed anyone(which i probably did), im so sorry, tag the blog in reblogs or comments

@spacerard

@plant-gee

@mcr-as-thingz

@mcr-architecture

@mcr-as-mugs

@mcr-as-cats

@mcr-airplane

@mychemicalpokemon

@mychemical-cocktail

@mychemicallandscape

@mcr-as-trinkets

@my-chemical-rocks

@ray-and-sheep

@gerardasvintageclothes

@bat-gee

@birdgee

@fishmikey

@fruitermcr

@geemotorways

@my-chemical-dice

@mcr-as-dumb-lil-sillys

@mc-car

@mothrard

@salamander-mcr

@slugrard

@serpentgee

@m-sea-r

@gerard-zilla

@mcr-as-marvel

@rodentfrnk

@geellyfishes

@dogfrnk

@mcr-as-album-covers

@rabbitgee

@dogmikey

@dinosaur-mcr

@rockmcr

@mychemicaltriptothezoo

@chickenmcr

@mcrasflags

@mychemaschems

@skychemicalromance

@my-littlest-romance

@mcraswolves

@mcr-as-kpop

@catrardway

@god-save-the-gee

@mcrscentedproducts

@mychemicaltokidokis

@mychemicalsoupcan

@sharkrard

@mychemicalanimalia

@geebeetles

@spidergee

@house-of-geewolves

@mcr-beltz

@mcrasanime

@mychemicalvideogame

@mcrastoycarsiown

@my-colourful-romance

@mychemicaltokidokis

@breadrard-way

@geepods

@mychemical-brainrot

@mychemicalinsects

@mcrasmovies

@mcr-as-artwork

@mcr-as-artnstuff

@mcr-as-asspen

@my-chemical-clothes

@mcr-as-outer-space

@mychemicalpastries

@mcr-as-artwork

@mcr-as-nails

@mychemicalpastries

@gerard-way-as-songs

[plasmapumpkin]

The Language of the Black Parade

By Nate Piekos

Soon after being contacted by Gerard Way to work on the 2025 Long Live the Black Parade tour, I thought it might be a good idea to start writing down notes in the event that I decided to compose an article on how the typeface came together. Not really knowing if I’d actually get it done—or have enough interesting info to even justify an article—I just scribbled thoughts and dates on sticky notes which were soon lost to the chaos of my studio. I tried my best to find them all (and I was semi-successful) when the time came to write this.

In August of 2024, I received an email from Gerard asking me if I was up to design a font for the following year’s My Chemical Romance tour. Gerard and I have worked together since the beginning of The Umbrella Academy comic books published at Dark Horse (Wikipedia tells me that was back in 2007). We’ve always gotten along really well. We’re approximately the same age, and we’re both really into comics and music. Of course I said I was interested, so we scheduled a Zoom call to hash out the details.

The afternoon of the Zoom call, Gerard filled me in on his concept of the tour, which would lean heavily on a fictional dictatorship rooted in an equally-fictional Eastern Bloc country. He wanted to create a language that was both made-up, and yet felt entirely real. In fact, he already had a name for this language...

KEPOSHKA

We started delving into 1930s and 40s posters from Russia, England, Italy, and other countries, compiling a morgue file of reference images. We would send pictures to each other and try to figure out what appealed to us. After poster art, we moved on to brutalist architecture and then period typefaces. It was about that time that I broke out the art supplies and started sketching. I used 11” x 17” graph paper, tech pencils, and Copic tech pens.

As I filled out the first sheet of ideas, I would email or text pics to Gerard and he enthusiastically approved pretty much everything—going so far as to hang print-outs in his studio as inspiration for the other facets of the tour’s design work. Quite an honor for me. Other members of My Chemical Romance were now getting their first look at what we had been cooking up. While I didn’t have any direct contact with Mikey, Frank, or Ray, I was told that they were excited at the samples they’d been shown.

After three or four rounds of this piecemeal approval of ideas, it seemed we were moving in the right direction and Gerard gave me the go-ahead to work independently. While I was sketching, he emailed me one particular glyph that he’d created and was calling, “the hangman” symbol. It was inspired by the old pen and paper game called, Hangman, that kids used to play. Gerard thought the symbol looked like the gallows from the game. This eventually became our Keposhka version of the letter “R”, and you can see it in the translated version of the MCR logo at the beginning of this article.

A second sheet of 11” x 17” sketches followed over the next couple of weeks. When that was approved, I felt like it was time to progress to the next step: bringing these ideas into the digital realm. I began working on vector versions of the glyphs in Adobe Illustrator. Quite a few of the ideas from the sketches were used. When I ran out, I began creating new glyphs without reference. I was finally at a point where my familiarity with the style allowed me to just make up new symbols on the fly.

We also began thinking about numbers and punctuation. Many other non-English languages use standard numbers. Since these fonts might be used for merch, tour graphics, and other instances that might require understandable numbers, I created a clean, western set of numbers.

KEPOSHKA CONDENSED & EXTRA CONDENSED

Originally, this whole project was just focused on a single pair of fonts; somewhat wide, very clean, sans-serif versions of Keposhka Regular and Italic—but I began to see that there might be a need for more. I finished up the initial set, I proposed a Condensed Regular and Condensed Italic. Gerard was all for it. Later on, this Condensed set was shown prominently in the initial live-action trailer for the tour. If you look closely, you can see many instances of Keposhka Regular in the final scene of the trailer as well.

Since I was proposing the Condensed set, I figured an Extra Condensed Regular and Extra Condensed Italic might be useful for scenarios where space was at a premium. Gerard was eager for me to come up with anything I thought might be useful and gave me the thumbs up.

I took the vectors of Keposhka Regular, Italic, Condensed Regular, Condensed Italic, Extra Condensed Regular, and Extra Condensed Italic created in Illustrator, and ported them over to Fontlab. This is my software of choice for doing all the programming, kerning, etc. involved in making professional, finished typefaces. I think it took about a month and a half to wrap up all six fonts. A well-designed font family can take up to several months to finish, but our deadlines were tight—there were other designers waiting on these fonts so they could get started on other facets of the tour.

MCRIn late October/early November, with very few corrections from Gerard, the six fonts were approved and delivered, and as far as I knew, I was finished with the project. Little did I know that six fonts was soon to become fourteen!

KEPOSHKA ENGLISH

A few months later, I got an email from Gerard. He’d realized that he needed an English typeface…and it would need to work aesthetically with our fictional language. Off the shelf English fonts might not cut it. Gerard wanted something custom-made. Gerard was already very busy with tour prep, so he let me work almost completely on my own. I found myself re-hired on the project, and I got back to work. There would be no more analog sketching of ideas; I decided to work 100% in the digital realm, creating vectors in Illustrator. We decided on a simple sans-serif. Something traditional, slightly wide, and pleasing to the eye. This eventually led to Keposhka English Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic (bringing us up to ten fonts total).

I’ve been making fonts for over twenty years, almost all of which are in English and other Latin-based glyph sets, so Keposhka English went more quickly than the fictional language. I didn’t have to imagine how weird symbols would fit together, or how this imaginary culture used punctuation, etc. I was back in my comfort zone.

I finished and delivered Keposhka English Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic in mid-April of 2025. I thought it meshed with the original Keposhka when displayed side-by-side, and so did Gerard. Once again, I thought I was done . . . but it was not to be! Gerard had one more idea up his sleeve.

[continued in reblog]

[jigsawed-in-half]

hey who wants to read bad hasty analysis of the new mcr video

here we go!

frame 1: the deer (later seen in the logo) is shown as dead in the official flag, with lots of plants and rot around it…. DECAY! AS IN FOUNDATIONS OF! Also yk four squares above it….like the four members….

frame 2: statue of the dictator as seen in previous videos. more on him later.

frame 3: the city! in full view! same as from previous videos, yet this has the sepia tone of a white man making a film in Mexico. Suggests again that DRAAG is meant to be a communist style state, thru the use of brutalist architecture

frame 4: grain! meant to symbolize prosperity and health, also corroborates the theory that it’s meant to be a USSR/CCP type state- ahem five year plans anybody. 

frame 5: 2KM (I assume) logo. likely just the station BUT! Uses the same font as everything else, further suggesting DRAAG is a universal, all-encompassing force that suppresses creative expression

frame 6: hey king! what the fuck is a Dragoshka. Is it a nation? A group of people? A caste? Who knows! But this anchorman assumes we are dragoshkas! one again, Slavic sounding word, lending to the USSR themes here

frame 7: eeeeeeey the boys are back! so it takes the Mexico City show (their last show as the black parade) and uses it as the basic start point of our story. Why were they thought to be dead? Where were they for all this time? Questions questions

frame 8: ok. so is DRAAG interpol style government? is it a fixed location? who knows! but they are holding these guys hostage it seems?

frame 9: Ok so the leader from earlier is the Grand Immortal Dictator (GID) sounds like god lol. and he is revered by people in (supposedly) other countries- is he a threat to them? does he rule them openly or from under the table?

frame 10: the cabinet of operatic retaliations? this implies 1: the “opera” video was possibly the testing of a weapon and 2 that music IS a weapon, this guitar kills fascists etc

frame 11: end salute! we are still in a highly controlled news space! also DRAAG is definitely controlling Mexico and likely other states. Also the deer is alive in this one? Theories could be made here

in conclusion holy FUCK bro

[sunsetriwoo]

a few cups of coffee later... here's a small idea i had for my yachtboys!bnd series... it's a wip ig.... (all the readers are fem!readers atm... might change)

bonedo are brothers so all 6 will be yachtboys together (#ot6)... when i think yachtboys i think of them throwing parties on their yacht(s)? for their friends and other people they decide to invite

share your opinions/feedback with me!! i don't bite click more to see what i wrote <3

friendly ✶ yachtboy!sungho x aloof visual arts student!reader

when yachtboy!sungho first comes across the aloof visual arts student occupying one of the studios, it felt like love at first sight. even though he's one of the friendliest people on campus, she pays him no mind. but sungho wasn't going to give up yet... he happens to know her best friend.

bashful ✶ yachtboy!riwoo x the school's social butterfly!reader

when yachtboy!riwoo's at their yacht parties, he's usually sitting aside, watching his friends have fun while he soaks in the overall energy. he takes life as it comes, and lives it however possible. until he laid eyes upon their campus' social butterfly, the one girl everyone simply adores.

confident ✶ yachtboy!jaehyun x serious council president!reader

when yachtboy!jaehyun gets challenged, he never backs down. this time, his friends were betting on if 'mr confident' could crack their student president's façade, and have her falling for him. but little does he know... her own friends have all placed their own little bets for this show.

witty ✶ yachtboy!taesan x sunshine fashion design student!reader

when yachtboy!taesan isn't with the group, he's either in his room making music or looping mcr albums as he walks down the hallways, trying not to draw attention. but when he was walking and bumped into a fashion design student, he realises that she's everything he wanted and more.

charismatic ✶ yachtboy!leehan x oblivious lyrical arts student!reader

when yachtboy!leehan walks down the halls, all eyes are on him. with his charming personality, he never fails to catch their attention. but when he walks by the sunshine lyrical arts student, he was instantly drawn to her. but there's one small issue, she treats everyone the same way.

sweet ✶ yachtboy!woonhak x shy architecture student!reader

when yachtboy!woonhak is called popular, he doesn't really mind it much. but the downside of being popular, is that shyer people tend to avoid him, even though he's one of the nicest guys on campus. but despite that, he simply won't give up on that one architecture student.

[writeblood]

What type of tumblr user Hogwarts Legacy characters would be

Note, I haven’t actually been part of tumblr culture since the 2010s

Sebastian

cursed memes, infodumping on extremely niche topics, and extremely tumblr style humour.

The guy who knows precisely how to respond to someone saying ‘I like your shoelaces’.

He’s never watched Supernatural in his life but read up on all 25 seasons when the superhell penultimate season finale hit.

Gets into drama with anon asks.

political takes that are usually decent and anti-capitalist, except for one opinion that got him canceled

Sebastian once spent a night accidentally reblogging NSFW content to his main blog instead of his side one so now 50% of his fetishes have been exposed.

Every photo and video he posts/reblogs, he adds a description caption so Ominis can also be subjected to his taste in memes.

Ominis

primarily text and music based, but will occasionally have videos of nature or architecture.

A lot of quotes from angsty classical literature and MCR.

His tagging is methodical and precise.

He has a huge following because one time he posted a photo of himself (taken by Sebastian) and it went viral.

Has his asks turned off and follows less than 30 blogs.

Someone once posted an expose on him, calling him a trust fund kid, but since it was mostly screenshots without description captions he never came across it.

Anne

she has one tumblr that all her friends follow her on and one secret tumblr that’s the dark side, depression, venting diary kind of stuff.

When the site went through another round of content moderation, she deleted it.

she also accidentally deleted her main blog oops...

Her normal tumblr is skateboard trick videos, small fandom media, and a mish-mesh of whatever catches her interest for the month.

She really likes the elaborate, artsy makeup looks even though she herself rarely wears it.

reblogs posts related to chronic illness and eye related disability

Her humour is ‘just girly things: waking up covered in blood’

Poppy

sooo many cute animal videos.

Has a very cutesy layout with an animal cursor.

Some people hate her blog because it has an autoplay music widget playing MARINA/Olivia Rodrigo.

She has anon asks turned off but will respond to account asks.

Occasionally reblogs a vegan/animal activist post.

She has a few close friends and will not hesitate to reblog their posts with encouraging comments.

Natsai

on the multi-lingual side of tumblr– english, french, and swahili

Lots of funny personal anecdote stories

Reblogs feminist posts that either deal with actionable things (protesting, community organising, safety) or talking about feminist public figures

Reblogs black hair tutorial/pics with the mindset that she’ll try it out but never does.

martial arts videos but the realistic ones

Likes a lot of special effects art in movies/tv shows so if you follow her with SFW filters turned off, you might see some fake blood.

Amit

studyblr, langblr, and a little bit of geeky stuff

okay, it's a lot. He's a fan of non-DC, non-Marvel comic and Star Trek

will write a 900 word breakdown of that one specific scene and its symbolism

too ashamed to openly admit he reads fanfic but reblogs a lot of posts from accounts who do

Imelda

1 post complaining about the complexities of using tumblr

3 posts related to women's football (soccer for americans)

1 personal video of her scoring the winning goal for her team

1 post and response to clowning on Garreth

'last posted 1 year ago'

MC

I’m using my OC Anesidora Fig from Shadow consumes the Sun (link in profile)

Used to have one of those semi-anonymous blogs where it’s filled with aesthetic photo compilations (light and dark academia, romanticising living in old cities, tea and coffee photoshoots despite not liking the drinks), but then she went ‘lets be mutuals, Ominis :)’ and realised…

So she panic nuked her blog and started over.

Now it’s full of studyblr, tagamemnon gossip over dead ancient roman poets, and love/romantic poems/excerpts.

english and french language included

went viral when she posted a class project video where she edited how to train your dragon but the dragon was replaced with her pet reptile a la "Jurassic Park but with a Cat" (OwlKitty)

When she starts to fancy Ominis, her reblogged love quotes start to focus more and more on his specific attributes

Since the texts she reblogs don’t have crass language or kinks, she thinks it’s entirely SFW. However, Ominis has learnt not to open her blog when he’s not alone or someone will ask him why he’s red in the face.

Her asks are open but she ignores them 90% of the time.

[mg549]

not to vaguepost (this is not abt anyone i follow or who follows me) but the mcr stage show is so clearly not Just The Soviet Union. its aesthetic is aiming to critique the rise of fascism in europe in the mid-1930's.

notably the structure of clothing is very very direct in taking inspiration from english military uniforms and evening wear (the most notable exception of which being the secretary whose outfit SCREAMS 1940's italy). the russian inspiration lies mostly in font and architecture and while it IS THERE, it feels overall much more intentionally a melange of fascist and authoritarian european aesthetics. which. is both politically relevant and thematically appropriate for a *black parade* tour (as bp takes inspo from ww1 european aesthetics).

i've seen the suggestion that if they wanted to make a modern political statement they should've adopted an american aesthetic but 1. that would be visually dissonant from the visuals of the black parade 2. they already did american critique through americana with danger days and 3. IN THE CURRENT MEDIA-ILLITERATE AND EXTREMIST POLITICAL CLIMATE, runs a SERIOUS RISK OF BEING TAKEN AS *LITERAL PATRIOTISM*.

i feel like a lot of it is bc to the average american who Is very familiar w/ red scare visuals, the soviet elements are going to be very obvious while the other visual inspirations might not be picked up on, which like, fair there's always room to learn, but if you see "fascist dictatorship where the votes don't matter, artist's lives are controlled very literally, violence is normalized, the figurehead is literally a wax puppet, music and tv are used to distract the masses from the war crimes they're doing" as "communism is bad", then your understanding of communism is on par with the average right-wing conservative and i cannot save you

[silly62]

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I am Shima from Gaza,

Hope my message finds you well..

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My home, along with all my cherished memories and dreams, was destroyed. Now, homeless, I struggle to find a safe place for my children.

Our situation is indescribable. the hopelessness of being unable to protect my family, and the desperation of not being able to provide for my children weigh heavily on me.

Please share, repost or donate to my family Please do not ignore my message 🙏🏻🍉🍉

Your donations are important for our survival

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Help them out if u can‼️🗣🫶

[can-u-not-14]

Guys i found the address of where the 'Opera' MCR video was filmed

I did this for y'all so u better thank me for doing ur work.

Unfortuanatley for me it didn't say it immediately when i googled it

My awsome work featured below the cut (TLDR at the end)

So if ur wondering which vid im talking about i mean this one

(Sry for the random black background)

So anyway i paused at this really specific scene

Notice smth familier? That's right this place was also featured in 'Sad Clown' by Panic! At the Disco.

Heres a photo for comparison (ugly one ik)

The architectural structures pretty much exact. So r the paintings. So its def the same

I had only one problem.

Google wouldn't tell me where this was filmed

So i did a bit of searching through Reddit and found out that this song called A BOY IS A GUN by Tyler the Creator was filmed at this same location.

Its the same just without the paintings and some other shit

So then with a bit of searching where this video was filmed i finally found it (thx to unknown person on reddit who acc was deleted)

This is the place guys

Comparisn to Tyler the Creators video

Trust me its the same

TLDR: the address for where 'opera: was filmed from the MCR video is -

1288 S Oakland Ave Pasadena, CA 91106, USA

link to house here